Confronted with growing outrage from users over the handling of their personal information, Facebook has begun rolling out a much-simplified set of privacy controls this week. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stresses that the company has "listened carefully" to complaints from its nearly 500 million users "in order to figure out the best next steps." The American Civil Liberties Union has declared that, "Facebook is finally friending privacy again." But will the changes be enough to regain public trust? (Watch Mark Zuckerberg announce new privacy settings.)

Zuckerberg is trying to please the government, too: It also remains to be seen "whether D.C. lawmakers... or the Federal Trade Commission" — both of which have expressed concern over the site's privacy policy — will have their concerns assuaged by the fixes, says Caroline McCarthy in CNET. Either way, Zuckerberg apparently now understands the scrutiny given to a company on the "big international stage." "Do Facebook's new privacy settings let if off the hook?"